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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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The Pacific Electric Company San Marino railroad (or railway?) station, ca.1920
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The Pacific Electric Company San Marino railroad (or railway?) station, ca.1920
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Description
Photograph of the Pacific Electric Company San Marino railroad (or railway?) station, ca.1920. A cable car makes a turn on tracks that converges into a parallel path with the tracks running diagonal across the landscape. Utility pole line the tracks. A round structure and trees are visible in the background. Mountains are visible in the distance. The name of the city, San Marino, is posted on a utility pole (center). Behind the utility pole is a billboard which reads: "[...]tol [f]lour".
Asset Metadata
Title
The Pacific Electric Company San Marino railroad (or railway?) station, ca.1920
Subject
Pacific Electric Company
(subject),
Street-railroads
(lcsh),
Terminals (Transportation)
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Stations
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
San Marino
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1920
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1920
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12616
Identifier
8476 (
accession number
), CHS-8476 (
call number
), CHS-8476 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12110 (
legacy record id
), chs-m12616 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-12771 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-12771 (
legacy record id
), 1-37-147 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12110
Unique identifier
UC132714
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8476.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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